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Recent News:

10/27/09: Supplemental grant is funded by NSF

10/27/09: Another joint paper with Ning Wang’s lab accepted by PLoS ONE

08/11/09: Our review article has been accepted by Integrative Biology.

07/05/09: Our shear stress and NF-kappaB paper has been accepted by Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering.

06/15/09: We are invited to the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference, Synthetic Biology: Building on Nature’s Inspiration.

05/16/09: Taejin Kim was selected as one of the prestigious Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows. Congratulations!

04/27/09: Jie passed the Prelim exam of the Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology. Congratulations, Jie!

04/27/09: Our R21 grant in integrating FRET and FLIM is funded by NIH. Thanks to the hard work from everybody.

04/17/09: Our high-school intern Richard Wang is in the national semi-final list for the Intel Science Talent Search. Congratulations! Richard. http://www.societyforscience.org/sts/68sts/ALPHSEMI.html

03/19/09: Our lab is awarded with 2009 NSF Career Award. Thanks to the hard work from everybody.

02/20/09: Good News. Our lab is awarded with 2009 Xerox Award. Thanks for the hard work from everybody.

02/10/09: Good News. Taejin and Jing’s paper is in press by Small. Congratulations to Taejin and Jing!

01/13/09: Good News. Jihye’s paper has been chosen as the cover article by Chemistry & Biology. http://www.cell.com/chemistry-biology/issue?pii=S1074-5521(09)X0002-5#, Congratulations to Jihye!

12/04/08: Good news, our recent Annual Review article is among the top ten in Volume 10 to be accessed on the Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering Web site (http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/toc/bioeng/10/1). Since its publication this August, this article’s abstract has been accessed 2023 times and the PDF has been downloaded 1165 times.

11/26/08: John and Kathy’s paper has been accepted by PLoS One. Congratulations to John and Kathy!

11/18/08: Jihye’s paper has been accepted by Chemistry & Biology (Cell Press). Congratulations to Jihye, Kathy, Mingxing, and He!

11/15/08: Our lab has been invited to present our work at the prestigious Keystone Symposium “Mechanotransduction in Physiology and Disease” http://www.keystonesymposia.org/Meetings/ViewMeetings.cfm?MeetingID=972.

11/15/08: Thanks to everyone in the lab for the hard work, our lab has been invited to present our work at The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) at Washington, DC. http://www.aimbe.org/annualevent

11/12/08: Good News. Our lab is granted with Grainger Award. Thanks to Kathy’s helps.

11/10/08: Our high-school summer intern Richard Wang is in the regional final list for the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. Congratulations! Richard. http://www.newsgazette.com/news/people/2008/11/10/being_science-y_pays_for_uni_high_senior_in_competition

11/01/08: Good news. Our lab is highlighted by The Scientist. http://www.the-scientist.com/2008/11/1/63/1/

08/29/08: Jihye passed the qualifying exam of Neuroscience program. Congratulations, Jihye!

08/25/08: Taejin’s paper has been accepted by Journal of Cellular Physiology, Congratulations to Taejin, Jihye, Mingxing, Jie, Kathy, and Jun Hong!

08/11/08: Mingxing’s second paper has been accepted by PNAS. Congratulations to Mingxing and Jie!

07/25/08: Good News. Kathy’s paper has been listed as featured research by PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations to Kathy, Mingxing, and Jihye. http://www.ploscompbiol.org/home.action

06/27/08: Good News. Wallace H. Coulter Foundation has awarded Phase II grant to our lab. Thanks to Kathy, Mingxing, and Jie’s helps.

05/20/08: Kathy’s paper has been accepted by PLOS Computational Biology. Congratulations, Kathy!

04/24/08: Mingxing’s paper has been accepted by JBC. Congratulations, Mingxing!

12/11/07: Beckman Laser Institute Inc. Foundation approved the second year support of our project.

10/23/07: Poster award to Jihye by Neuroscience Program for her poster “Live-Cell Imaging of Src by FRET in Neuronal Growth Cones”. Congratulations to Jihye!